WTFPL

The wtfpl (Thu W has T he F uck You Want To P ublic L icense) is a public-domain -like software license . As the name of the license (in German: Do-what-you-want-license ) already makes clear, its goal is not to impose any conditions on the use of the software on which it is based (public domain). Banlu Kemiyatorn published the first version 1.0 in March 2000 and used it as a license for specially created graphics in the Window Maker project. Sam Hocevar, a French programmer and former head of the Debian project (April 17, 2007 to April 16, 2008) wrote version 2.0, the contents of which are a copyright notice and the only condition you do what you damn well want to do . Version 2 is recognized by the Free Software Foundation as a GPL-compatible license for free software , but not recommended. The comparable licenses MIT or Apache 2.0 , or the use of a copyleft license are preferable. In order to release a work as a public domain without restrictions, the CC0 is recommended, as it was specially written for compatibility with the various international legal systems (in contrast to the WTFPL, whose legal validity is unclear in the event of a lawsuit).

License

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
  14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Use of the license

So far, the license has been used for a few projects. On the Freecode website , from which numerous free software packages can be obtained, there are around 43 projects under the WTFPL. More than 750,000 files and projects are hosted on GitHub under this license.

Web links

Commons : WTFPL  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTFPL - Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WindowMaker-0.80.2: description + notes. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; accessed on November 24, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Free Software Foundation: License overview of the Free Software Foundation on gnu.org. GNU operating system, accessed November 24, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Freecode: Category WTFPL. Freecode, accessed April 25, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Freecode: Category WTF Public License. Freecode, accessed April 25, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Search. "WTFPL". GITHUB. GITHUB, accessed April 25, 2018 .